Why is the protection of worker privacy necessary?
Current law allows employers to force workers to participate in communication, including mandatory meetings, where the employer can press their own views on religion, politics and unions. Employers routinely use mandatory communication to intimidate and coerce managers and supervisors to discourage unionization or to press particular views, as in the case of Wal-Mart. Workers can be, and are, fired or disciplined for refusing to participate in such communication. What will the Worker Privacy Act do? The Worker Privacy Act allows workers to choose whether or not to participate in employer communication unrelated to job performance when that communication is about private matters of individual conscience, without any threat to their employment status. Workers who report or challenge such mandatory communication will be protected from retaliatory discharge or discipline. Workers will have a civil court remedy for violations of the Worker Privacy Act. What mandatory communication is permit
